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Making the Most of Learner Dictionaries (British Edition)

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This course focuses on modern dictionaries for learners of English. The goal is to equip you with the knowledge and practical expertise that you will need to help your students make the most of this important reference and learning tool. We'll talk about how innovative resources used to create today's dictionaries, examine their most important features, and discuss what it means to make good use of dictionaries and the key principles that underpin good dictionary use. With the help of practical activities that you can download and use in the classroom, you'll be able to help your students choose the dictionary that is right for them, and show them how to make the most of it. Also, students who successfully complete this course will receive a TESOL Certificate of Completion.

About The Instructor

Michela Clari has been working in the field of lexicography and language reference publishing for over 25 years. She was born and educated in Italy, where she completed a degree in English and German language and literature, with a thesis in linguistics. In the late nineties Michela became Editorial Director for Collins Bilingual Dictionaries and the COBUILD ELT range. In this role, she had publishing and editorial responsibility for the full range of Collins dictionary titles for language learners, and for designing and launching new product ranges for both the trade and educational markets, in the UK and internationally. For many years Michela has been a regular presenter at major language conferences, such as TESOL, IATEFL, ALL, the British Council and EURALEX, in the UK, Europe, Asia and the States. Her interests include corpus-based lexicography, language learning, language reference publishing both print and digital, and e-learning.


Syllabus

A new session of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released. You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete all of your course work, including the final exam.


Requirements

• Internet access
• Email
• One of the following browsers:
o Mozilla Firefox
o Microsoft Internet Explorer (9.0 or above)
o Google Chrome
o Safari
Adobe PDF plug-in (a free download obtained at Adobe.com .)


Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader).